After decades of supplying Europe with energy, the 24,000-tonne topside of the Brent Delta oil and gas platform came in from the North Sea. Once in the dock at Hartlepool, on England's north-east coast, workers began dismantling it for recycling. And they found some surprises…including three guitars and a ukulele.

Shell launched its E4 programme in India to help start-ups accelerate the transition into a lower-carbon future. Four participants tell Inside Energy about their ideas and the pressing energy problem they hope to solve.

Speaking at a Politico event in Brussels, Belgium, Shell CEO Ben van Beurden addresses the proposal for the European Union to target net zero emissions by 2050, and the action that can help it happen. Read the speech in full.

Shell is a big company that supplies around 3% of the energy the world uses. We want to play our part and contribute to the global effort to tackle climate change and meet the goal of the Paris Agreement. Working towards our Net Carbon Footprint ambition is how we plan to do this.

Around two billion people live without access to reliable electricity. Nearly a billion of them have no access to electricity at all. Shell’s energy access business is focused on helping to tackle energy poverty.